Aesthetics of the Earth. Reframing Relational Aesthetics Considering Critical Ecologies
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In: Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics, Vol. 11, 2019, p. 106-125.
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T1 - Aesthetics of the Earth. Reframing Relational Aesthetics Considering Critical Ecologies
AU - Brunner, Christoph
AU - Kleesattel, Ines
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - This paper explores the works of Martinican writer and philosopher Édouard Glissant, focusing on his conceptions of poetics of relation and poetics of the earth. In doing so, we will critically revisit the notion of Relational Aesthetics as introduced by French curator Nicolas Bourriaud in 1998, tweaking the concept towards a materialist, more-than-human and post-colonial outlook. In proposing an Earthly Relational Aesthetics we will use Glissant’s critiques of colonial capitalism and engage with a “materialism of encounter” capable of accounting for a poetics immanent to specific situated and earthly, that is, historically informed and materially active, modes of sensation. Drawing on Glissant’s postcolonial writings, we suggest to trouble Western philosophical discourses on aesthetics as continued processes of colonization.
AB - This paper explores the works of Martinican writer and philosopher Édouard Glissant, focusing on his conceptions of poetics of relation and poetics of the earth. In doing so, we will critically revisit the notion of Relational Aesthetics as introduced by French curator Nicolas Bourriaud in 1998, tweaking the concept towards a materialist, more-than-human and post-colonial outlook. In proposing an Earthly Relational Aesthetics we will use Glissant’s critiques of colonial capitalism and engage with a “materialism of encounter” capable of accounting for a poetics immanent to specific situated and earthly, that is, historically informed and materially active, modes of sensation. Drawing on Glissant’s postcolonial writings, we suggest to trouble Western philosophical discourses on aesthetics as continued processes of colonization.
KW - Cultural studies
KW - Postcolonialism
KW - Philosophy
KW - Ästhetik
KW - Science of art
UR - http://www.eurosa.org/wp-content/uploads/ESA-Proc-11-2019-Brunner-Kleesattel-2019.pdf
M3 - Conference article in journal
VL - 11
SP - 106
EP - 125
JO - Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics
JF - Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics
SN - 1664-5278
T2 - European Society for Aesthetics Annual Conference - ESA 2019
Y2 - 12 June 2019 through 14 June 2019
ER -